The question to be asked about the bloody ambush in the Indonesian province of Papua of employees of the giant US-owned Freeport mine is who…

[The security chief for the Freeport mine has said he agrees with assessments by the Indonesian military, that the local independence group,…

[Last weekend's killing of three school teachers in Papua highlights the complex relationship between the Freeport mining company, the…

Yuliansyah, Banjarmasin – Angered by the fact that South Kalimantan Governor H.M. Sjachriel had ignored their demands for him to leave his…

Dan Murphy, Jakarta – Indonesian soldiers were searching the fog-shrouded mountains Monday near the world's richest gold and copper mine for the…

Jakarta – Some 800 of employees from five banks facing a merger rallied outside the House of Representatives on Monday, urging…

Jakarta – Communications and information minister Syamsul Muarif said here Monday that the government and the House of Representatives…

Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday Indonesia was on track to achieve single digit inflation by year end, a day after…

Mike Jendrzejczyk, Washington – Will US training improve the Indonesian military's terrible human-rights record?

During a visit to Jakarta…

[In Indonesia, freedom of the press is under the spotlight with controversial plans by the government to prevent the rebroadcast of certain…

Matthew Moore and Greg Roberts in Timika and Townsville – West Papuans yesterday accused Indonesian security forces of involvement in an ambush of…

Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri, Vice President Hamzah Haz and some other senior state officials are morally responsible for the…

Jakarta (agencies) – Indonesia's army chief yesterday called on the international media not to speculate on who was responsible for…

Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo has called to East Timor's political leaders and the international community to begin moves to establish an…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Over the past five years, the Internet has become a crucial tool for Islamic groups in Indonesia to spread their beliefs…

Jakarta – Chinese herbal medicines are growing in popularity here, even among the non-Chinese, as an alternative to Western drugs.

Ms Ailin…

The shocking murder of three employees of the giant US-owned Freeport mine in West Papua on the weekend underscores the instability of our…

Tom Wright, Jakarta – Indonesia's attempts to blame the weekend killing of two US citizens on Papuan separatists may be the first step in a…

Jakarta – Indonesia posted higher inflation in August, the first increase in six months and a figure prompting speculation further interest rate…

Robert Go, Jakarta – First it was shoemakers, toy makers and leather workers. Now it is the turn of the textile producers to complain that theirs…

[Anti-corruption campaigners in Indonesia have charged that new districts and townships are being created out of existing provinces, as the…

Abdullah Alamudi, Jakarta – Indonesia's newly won press freedom is now in limbo as the broadcast bill – nearly at its final reading at the House…

[Violence has escalated to Australia's north, in the Indonesian province of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya. Over the weekend two American…

Sydney – Papuan rights and independence activists said on Monday they believed the Indonesian military could be to blame for a weekend attack that…

Jakarta – Thousands of illegal Indonesian workers and their families are living in dire conditions in camps near the country's border with…

[Kirsty Sword was a resistance fighter who became the First Lady. Now comes the hard part. Susan Wyndham profiles the wife of the East Timorese…

Dili – The fledgling nation of East Timor risks being exploited by organized crime and developing institutionalized corruption, because of its…

[The Indonesian province of Papua is notoriously a black hole for information, and after the weekend's shocking attack on employees of the…

Achmad Sukarsono and Jerry Norton, Jakarta – Indonesian troops fanned out through thick jungle in Papua province on Monday in search of an armed…

Mari Alkatiri – It is a truism of the developing world that the blessing of petroleum wealth can be a curse. Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela…

East Timor's religious leader has said that the Timorese people are "disenchanted" after three months of independence.

Bishop…

[Tensions between Jakarta and Papua's independence movement have escalated following the weekend attack near the giant Freeport gold mine in…

Denise Leith – Kelly Kwalik of the OPM has denied that the nationalist group is responsible for the killing and wounding of Freeport employees on…

While civil society groups have placed their hopes in creating a zone of peace in West Papua, thousands of members of Laskar Jihad have flooded…

In a statement issued today by Messrs Willy Mandowen, Victor Kaisiepo and Clemens Runawery on behalf of the people of West Papua, the Papua…

Jakarta – Health and emergency workers in an Indonesian border town said yesterday they were struggling to ensure thousands of Indonesians fleeing…

Marni Cordell – It's cold on the first morning of the Yumi Wantaim gathering, and we – an eclectic mix of faces, ages and colours – are huddled…

Mystery has shrouded the death in September 2001 of Willem Onde, a local OPM commander in Merauke, together with a colleague. Investigations…

[The Indonesian government has had harsh colonial policy vis-a-vis the people of West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya). Whereas East Timor became a…

Only misery, not wealth, flows from the ExxonMobil gas pipeline that passes near this poor Aceh village, residents say.

They blame…

The murder of two Americans and an Indonesian by unidentified gunmen on Saturday near PT Freeport Indonesia's huge copper and gold mine is certain…

[The following review of Don Greenlees and Robert Garran, "Deliverance: The Inside Story of East Timor's Fight for Freedom" (Allen & Unwin…

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Indonesia's supreme military commander has warned the separatist movement in Indonesia's troubled province of Aceh that…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Less than three weeks after lawmakers agreed to scrap the military and police's free seats in the House of…

Jill Jolliffe, Gugleur – Gugleur has little to recommend it. Its people are subsistence farmers and the maize crop has failed this year. The dust…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – A Bill that involves placing a government "spy" in broadcasting agencies here is likely to be passed next month by…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Legal experts and critics yesterday described the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the graft conviction for…

Jakarta – Legislators are drafting new changes to the long running debate on the labor bill, proposing, among other items, a government permit for…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Hundreds of members of the Indonesian Prosperity Trade Union (SBSI) marched to the West Java provincial legislature…

Rizal Sukma – After being postponed for almost two weeks from August 5, the government finally issued a "new policy" for Aceh on August 19. The…